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"It is difficulties that show what men are."
Epictetus
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Epictetus
Greece - Philosopher
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Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.
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Fortify thyself with contentment: that is an impregnable stronghold.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.
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Why, then, do you walk as if you had swallowed a ramrod?
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First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
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Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice . None is a slave whose acts are free.
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No thing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell ...
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It is difficulties that show what men are.
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Epictetus
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them...
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If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure i...
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When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourse...
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What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. Fo...
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My brother ought not to have treated me thus.' True: but he must see to that. However he m...
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Only the educated are free.
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You are a little soul, carrying a corpse.
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Epictetus
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If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write.
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Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none.
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Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee.
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Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink.
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